Analyzes the complex professional and personal relationship between Johnson and Warton.

CRITICISM

Fairer, David. “Historical Criticism and the English Canon: A Spenserian Dispute in the 1750s.” Eighteenth-Century Life 24 (spring 2000): 43-64.

Uses Warton's Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser as part of a larger argument about the formation of the English literary canon.

Teich, Nathaniel. “A Comparative Approach to Periodization: Forms of Self-Consciousness in Warton's ‘The Pleasures of Melancholy’ and Keat's ‘Ode on Melancholy.’” In Proceedings of the Xth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association/Actes Du Xe Congres de l'Assocation Internationale de Literature Comparee New York 1982, edited by Anna Balakian and James J. Wilhelm, pp. 158-63. New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.

Additional coverage of Warton's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Discovering Authors Modules: Poets; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 104, 109; Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Vol. 15; Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2.

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